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A Great New Track From Sting: "Rushing Water"

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makeitstop10/10/2021 12:59:15 pm PDT

re: #20 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Worst guitar I ever touched, bar none, was a friend’s Les Paul that he proudly strung with .011 strings. It felt like hatred and animus.

I’ve never tried the opposite end of the spectrum — the Billy Gibbons / Frank Zappa .007 setup — but it can’t possibly be worse than the egg slicer that was that Les Paul.

I always thought the Gibbons setup story was just another of the Rev’s tall tales, but got verification from someone ho does pickup gigs with him that yeah, he did actually play with those super-duper light strings.

Me? I’d be busting strings left and right. I can get pretty good action out of .10s and I’ll stick with them.